Over the past 30+ years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, diet, and health professionals. We often function distinguished and new graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve discovered to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet one among our featured graduates, Kellie Hamilton BSN, RN, HN. She earned her Holistic Nutritionist Certification from AFPA.
Meet AFPA Graduate Kellie Hamilton BSN, RN, HN
Inform us about your self.
My title is Kelly, and I’m a Licensed Holistic Nutritionist and Licensed Dietary Wellness Guide with AFPA. I’m a working towards surgical ICU nurse in central Massachusetts and the very proud proprietor of A Higher Path to Wellness.
How did you initially change into concerned about well being and wellness?
I grew to become concerned about holistic well being and wellness after graduating from one of many high nursing packages in Massachusetts again in 2014. The primary non-nursing e book I picked up after a 4 12 months bachelor’s program in science and nursing was a e book on holistic well being and diet and kitchen chemistry. I used to be floored by the evidence-based science and data and the useful ideas that nobody had ever shared with us. I began asking round my buddies that have been in med college, and nobody was studying about this very key piece of well being and wellness. There was such an absence of evidence-based diet, and I made a decision proper then and there that I used to be going to begin filling that void.
Which AFPA certifications have you ever earned, and why did you select these certification packages?
I selected to be a Licensed Holistic Nutritionist and Licensed Dietary Wellness Guide with AFPA. After intensive analysis, I actually wished a program that match not solely with the sort of alignment of how I noticed myself as a coach going ahead, however I additionally wished one thing that was going to work with my busy schedule. I wished one thing that might be executed on-line that had nice customer support.
I did intensive analysis into studying critiques, evaluating packages, and AFPA simply actually checked all of these containers for me. I additionally preferred that I may name and get a reside particular person and ask questions and speak to them about what this system actually regarded like for someone who had no thought what to match it to.
The explanation I selected the certifications I did was as a result of I wished to have one foot in holistic medication and one foot in Western medication. I felt like there’s such a disconnect and there’s such a spot for each of them. I wished to supply folks extra preventative well being and dietary interventions to pair with their well being. And the Holistic Nutritionist Program actually aligned so effectively with that mind-set.
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How are you utilizing your certification?
I take advantage of my certification by serving to folks in some ways. Primarily, I’ve a house workplace right here in Worcester, Massachusetts the place I work with purchasers just about from everywhere in the nation. I assist them one-on-one in training classes. We take a look at the place you might be and assist kind a holistic plan for you and the way you should utilize meals and issues in your surroundings, whether or not it’s including issues or omitting issues which are simply actually affecting the general high quality of your well being.
I’m additionally a really passionate public speaker. I like to do academic occasions, workshops, and talking engagements. Within the final couple years of my enterprise, I’ve actually branched out. I’ve had the power to lecture to the athletic division for my alma mater, which was superb. I’ve gained pitch contests speaking about improvements on easy methods to change the face of what well being seems like. I’ve upcoming occasions for senior facilities and doing talking engagements for them. I’ve been featured on cable entry TV on matters like Parkinson’s diet and extra. I’ve actually put the certifications and licenses that I’ve acquired to make use of, and it has helped propel me into the well being, wellness, and diet area.
What are your favourite components of operating your enterprise?
My favourite elements of A Higher Path to Wellness is the people who I get to satisfy, whether or not it’s the one-on-one individuals who discover me for classes and training, or the folks I meet out locally doing vendor occasions or talking engagements. I’ve made a few of the finest buddies, and colleagues, and I’ve a few of the finest purchasers that I may have ever requested for. The people who I get to have interaction with regularly from having launched this enterprise and utilizing my certificates this fashion have come again to me tenfold. I’m so glad that I get to try this and I get to satisfy and work with a few of these superb folks.
Do you could have any success tales you’d wish to share?
I’m grateful to say that I’ve quite a lot of success tales that I may share, however choosing one would do a disservice to the quantity of laborious work my purchasers all put in. Collectively, the quantity of weight reduction, the quantity of diminished continual illness, the quantity of medicines that my purchasers have been in a position to come off, the biomarkers just like the lipid panels, the fasting glucose, the insulin ranges which have all been diminished in a wholesome, optimistic, sustainable method have simply shattered my expectations on what folks can actually obtain once they put their thoughts to one thing and have the ability of a well informed, skilled, empathetic coach behind them. And that basically in itself is the success story of my purchasers as a result of all of them obtain success in their very own method. It has been a pleasure and can proceed to be so long as I advance in my profession to cheer them on and assist them and yell their success tales from the mountaintop as a result of they deserve it.
What recommendation would you give others contemplating getting licensed via AFPA?
My recommendation to different individuals who wish to get licensed via AFPA is to do it. It’s inexpensive, well timed, and could be executed by yourself accord. And I believe that it’s only going to higher you as an individual, as a practitioner, as a coach, to proceed to coach your self and have the ability to apply that to the sufferers, purchasers, no matter you check with them as, that you just care for, it’s solely going to make you higher in the long term. And the assets that you just get from becoming a member of this group alone will proceed to serve you all through your profession.
How can we discover you on-line?
A Higher Path to Wellness
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Study concerning the necessary function of holistic nutritionists, what it takes to achieve success as one, and easy methods to construct a profitable, impactful profession in diet.
